"Pan's Labyrinth" Rules the DVD Charts

New Line Home Entertainment scored big last week as "Pan's Labyrinth" took the top spot on the national DVD sales and rental charts during its first week in stores. The acclaimed fantasy-thriller from director Guillermo del Toro, which picked up Oscars for art direction, cinematography and makeup, topped the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart and Home Media Magazine's rental chart for the week ending May 20th.

The film handily beat another new release with a significantly bigger boxoffice take, Sony Pictures' "Stomp the Yard." "Stomp" debuted at No. 2 on the sales chart but mustered only an eighth-place finish on the rental chart with earnings of $4 million, compared with $6.5 million for "Pan's Labyrinth."

Warner's "The Fountain," the third feature from director Darren Aronofsky, debuted at No. 4 on the sales chart and at No. 11 on the rental chart -- in line with its ho-hum showing at the boxoffice.

The previous week's top seller, Universal Studios' "Because I Said So," slipped to No. 7, while 20th Century Fox's "Night at the Museum" finally was booted out of the top spot on the rental chart after three weeks at No. 1.